I'd like to point out that we can't touch the self-lighting thing in the benchmark. You know, the light that just self-illuminates the character regardless of external lights? For people who deactivated that entirely in the game, like me, it looked very weird. But remembering it existed and putting it back in Endwalker, it looked a lot closer to what's already in with this option about halfway or above on the slider.

I think a lot of lighting issues people are pointing out come from this. They should have given us the option, let us see how it looked without it. But ultimately, it means it might be easily fixable by playing with this setting.

Some assets are clearly broken, like the bendy ears and the mole on M viera, or questionably edited, like the moon kitties' fangs. I think a lot of other things are very nice.